diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 436f3c602d..2d8c968939 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -75,14 +75,16 @@ - Briefly, FreeBSD is a UN*X-like operating system for the - i386 and Alpha/AXP platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's - 4.4BSD-Lite release, with some 4.4BSD-Lite2 enhancements. - It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. - Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very - little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of - what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on - the FreeBSD home + Briefly, FreeBSD is a UN*X-like operating system for + the i386 and Alpha/AXP platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's + 4.4BSD-Lite release, with some + 4.4BSD-Lite2 enhancements. It is also based + indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's + Net/2 to the i386, known as + 386BSD, though very little of the 386BSD + code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and + how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, @@ -277,14 +279,14 @@ FreeBSD-CURRENT - is the development version of the operating system, which will - in due course become 5.0-RELEASE. As such, it is really only - of interest to developers working on the system and die-hard - hobbyists. See the relevant section in the handbook for details on - running -CURRENT. + URL="../handbook/index.html">handbook for details + on running -CURRENT. If you are not familiar with the operating system or are not capable of identifying the difference between a real @@ -359,16 +361,19 @@ Back when FreeBSD 2.0.5 was released, we decided to branch FreeBSD development into two parts. One branch was - named -STABLE, - with the intention that only well-tested bug fixes and small - incremental enhancements would be made to it (for Internet - Service Providers and other commercial enterprises for whom - sudden shifts or experimental features are quite - undesirable). The other branch was -STABLE, + with the intention that only well-tested bug fixes and + small incremental enhancements would be made to it (for + Internet Service Providers and other commercial + enterprises for whom sudden shifts or experimental + features are quite undesirable). The other branch was + -CURRENT, - which essentially has been one unbroken line leading towards - 5.0-RELEASE (and beyond) since 2.0 was released. If a little - ASCII art would help, this is how it looks: + which essentially has been one unbroken line leading + towards 5.0-RELEASE (and beyond) since 2.0 was + released. If a little ASCII art would help, this is how it + looks: 2.0 | @@ -406,13 +411,15 @@ branches will be, for the most part, security-related bug fixes. - 4-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch. The - latest release on the 4-STABLE is &rel.current;-RELEASE, which was released - in &rel.current.date;. + 4-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch. + The latest release on the 4-STABLE is + &rel.current;-RELEASE, which was released in + &rel.current.date;. - The 5-CURRENT branch is slowly progressing toward 5.0-RELEASE - and beyond. See What is - FreeBSD-CURRENT? for more information on this branch. + The 5-CURRENT branch is slowly progressing toward + 5.0-RELEASE and beyond. See What + is FreeBSD-CURRENT? for more information on this + branch. @@ -448,14 +455,15 @@ - The key decisions concerning the FreeBSD project, such as - the overall direction of the project and who is allowed to add - code to the source tree, are made by a core team of - 9 people. There is a much larger team of more than 200 committers who - are authorized to make changes directly to the FreeBSD source - tree. + The key decisions concerning the FreeBSD project, such + as the overall direction of the project and who is allowed + to add code to the source tree, are made by a core + team of 9 people. There is a much larger team of + more than 200 committers + who are authorized to make changes directly to the FreeBSD + source tree. However, most non-trivial changes are discussed in advance in the mailing lists, and there @@ -602,12 +610,13 @@ - Each of these channels are distinct and are not connected - to each other. Their chat styles also differ, so you may need - to try each to find one suited to your chat style. As with - all types of IRC traffic, if you are easily offended or cannot - deal with lots of young people (and more than a few older - ones) doing the verbal equivalent of jello wrestling, do not + Each of these channels are distinct and are not + connected to each other. Their chat styles also differ, + so you may need to try each to find one suited to your + chat style. As with all types of IRC + traffic, if you are easily offended or cannot deal with + lots of young people (and more than a few older ones) + doing the verbal equivalent of jello wrestling, do not even bother with it. @@ -643,10 +652,11 @@ - Yes. The documentation is available in a number of different - formats and compression schemes on the FreeBSD FTP site, in the - /pub/FreeBSD/doc/ directory. + Yes. The documentation is available in a number of + different formats and compression schemes on the FreeBSD + FTP site, in the /pub/FreeBSD/doc/ + directory. The documentation is categorised in a number of different ways. These include: